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LOUIS PERRIN & L'ÉNIGME DES AUGUSTAUX
Ponot, René

- Paris : Éditions des Cendres 1998 - 4to. - stiff paper wrappers - 113, (5) pages - ISBN 2867420830 / Order Nr. 94595 - Price: $ 52.00

Text in French. Limited to an edition of 380 numbered copies on Vergé Légende Ivoire. A history of Perrin as a printer and typographer, with special attention to Perrin's Augustaux type. Contains two fold-out Augustaux type specimens and several examples of Perrin's printing in black-and-white. Preface by Fernand Baudin. Printed in Perrin type redesigned by L'Atelier National de Création Typographique in 1986.

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PATTERNS: DRAWN AND ENGRAVED ON WOOD. by DePol, John Limited to only 150 numbered copies and hand-printed by Neil Shaver at his Yellow Barn Press. With 39 pages containing numerous examples of designs printed in color.